VCCS Funds Access to Lumen’s Supported OER Courseware with No Cost to Students

Virginia Community College System renews agreement making Lumen Learning’s OER courseware and support services available to any VCCS student, faculty, and college

Portland, Ore. (May 16, 2019) – Lumen Learning announced it has finalized an agreement with the Virginia Community College System […]

New Edition: Introduction to Psychology

By Wendy King and Jamison Miller

One of our most-adopted OER courses is Introduction to Psychology. Since introducing it in 2017, we’ve received excellent feedback about its interactivity, the richness of the content, and how well it engages students.

Now this great course is even […]

A Framework for Continuous Improvement of OER

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

The potential of the “data revolution” in teaching and learning, just as in other sectors, is to create much more timely feedback loops for tracking the effectiveness of a complex system. In a field where feedback is already well established as a vital process for both […]

OER INITIATIVE WEBSITE

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Create a website to let your campus community (and the world) know about your OER initiative and the impact you’re making with OER. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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There […]

“WHY OER?” PRESENTATION*

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Deliver a “Why OER?” presentation to help key stakeholders understand what OER is and why it makes a difference for students, teaching, and learning.

Note: Asterisk denotes this is a proven, high-impact play. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a […]

COMPARE YOUR CAMPUS TO PEER INSTITUTIONS

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Learn what your institutional peers are doing with open educational resources, and use this information to build a case for how to differentiate and benefit your campus community by adopting OER. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

Running […]

Open Content Blog: Thinking About Impact

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

Originally posted on the opencontent.org blog, February 9, 2018 

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. Some of this seemed interesting enough that I thought I would share.

I have  […]

An Impactful Year for OER and Learning

By Kim Thanos, CEO

As we celebrate Open Education Week 2018, I can’t help but reflect and acknowledge it’s an exciting time to be working with open educational resources (OER).

Reviewing what we accomplished last year collectively across all the institutions we support, we’re proud to announce that we […]